Johnny Joint info???

[Salvador]

Have some one of you have tried the Johnny joints?? this are from Currie Enterprises
Are this capable of using them on off road?? It have been use on Rock Crawling but that its another wold.

http://www.offroadjeepparts.com/purchase/product.asp?item=343

[firedog]

check out the unsafe 102 thread. There are some pictures of the Orbit Eye spring that AOR builds. We run them on our race truck and haven't had a problem. www.aor4x4.com (http://www.aor4x4.com)
Paul

[DougM]

I used Rubicon Express's version of the Johhny joint on my Jeep and I thought they transmitted too much road vibration.
They are pretty easy to repair/replace, and with a zerk on them easy to lube.

[ntsqd]

As I recall the Currie parts use snap rings for retention of the bearing halves where the RE parts use a solid shoulder with a screw wear adjuster.

[matt_helton]

ive been running 2.5" johnny joints on my upper and lower a-arm pivots on my toyota for over 2 years now WITHOUT any problems. and i have really punished them to death. they are still holding strong.

the Curries also have johnny joints on all the pivots of the 4-link on their f-150 prerunner that james hall built. and on the radius arms as well. no problems there either.

[ACID_RAIN28]

I belive NOODLE is running them on the his front four link on his chevy, he should be able to add some input about them.

[DougM]

Thom,
the RE ones use a snap ring as well.
The other side uses a threaded collar adjuster to keep the joint in.

See pix
http://www.stu-offroad.com/misc/images/c-joint-5.jpg